Legal informatics – a big world
Posted by Nick Holmes on March 9, 2009
Tom Bruce, co-founder and director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School posts an interesting piece on the big new world of legal informatics, concluding:
We need to make informed choices between inexpensive automated approaches that work by brute force and the hand-crafted, highly-accurate approaches of legal bibliography that are not always scalable or affordable. We need to recalibrate what we mean by “authority”, and begin to think about measures of quality and reliability for legal text that avoid the creation of unnatural monopolies in legal information.
As a step in that direction LII has started a guest blog, VoxPopuLII, which will include big ideas from “folks in all different tribes in all different places on the intellectual and global map”.
We’ll be in touch, Tom.
(Hat tip to Joe Ury)
